About me

Simon Biggs is a new media artist, writer and curator with interests in digital poetics, interactive, auto-generative and affective systems, interdisciplinary research and co-creation across the creative arts, humanities and physical sciences. His work has been widely presented, including at the Tate (Britain, Modern and Liverpool), Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), Centre for Contemporary Art (Glasgow), Kettles Yard Cambridge), Pompidou (Paris), Academy de Kunste (Berlin), Kulturforum (Berlin), Rijksmuseum (Twenthe), Maxxi (Rome), Macau Arts Museum, San Francisco Cameraworks, Walker Art Center (Minneapolis) and the Art... Read more

About me

Simon Biggs is a new media artist, writer and curator with interests in digital poetics, interactive, auto-generative and affective systems, interdisciplinary research and co-creation across the creative arts, humanities and physical sciences. His work has been widely presented, including at the Tate (Britain, Modern and Liverpool), Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), Centre for Contemporary Art (Glasgow), Kettles Yard Cambridge), Pompidou (Paris), Academy de Kunste (Berlin), Kulturforum (Berlin), Rijksmuseum (Twenthe), Maxxi (Rome), Macau Arts Museum, San Francisco Cameraworks, Walker Art Center (Minneapolis) and the Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney). He has been keynote at many conferences and lectured internationally. Publications include Remediating the Social (2012), Autopoeisis (with James Leach, 2004), Great Wall of China (1999), Halo (1998), Magnet (1997) and Book of Shadows (1996). Research interests: Digital arts, interactive environments, digital poetics, electronic literature, augmented reality, performance environments and interdisciplinary research. Principal Investigator: Developing a Network-Based Creative Community: Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice, a collaborative research project funded by the Humanities in the European Research Area Joint Research Programme for Creativity and Innovation. Partners include University of Bergen (lead), University of Edinburgh (Biggs), Blekinge Institute of Technology, University of Amsterdam, University College Falmouth, University of Jyrvalska and University of Ljubljana. Value 1 million Euros for the period 2010-2013. Principal Investigator: Moving Targets, creating an innovative and sustainable knowledge exchange mechanism for the Scottish Creative Media sector to engage new audiences. Funded by the Scottish Funding Council. Partners include University of Abertay (lead) and Edinburgh (Biggs). Value £1.2 million for the period 2010-2013. Co-Investigator: Design in Action, an Arts and Humanities Research Council Knowledge Exchange Hub focused on the transformational potential of design in the ICT, food, sport, health and rural economy sectors. Partners include University of Dundee (lead), Edinburgh (Biggs, lead on ICT), Glasgow School of Art, Robert Gordon University, University of Abertay Dundee and St Andrews University. Value £5 million for the period 2012-2016.